Hayden, a Rancho Santa Margarita teen who friends describe as intelligent and always smiling, was taken off life support around 12:30 a.m. this morning, according to his godmother Debbie Dugorepec.

The 14-year-old was crossing Euclid Street in Fountain Valley on Saturday night when he was struck by a 2007 Ford F-150, according to police. The driver didn’t see the boy until he was hit by the vehicle. The driver stopped and voluntarily gave a blood sample, but there was no indication that alcohol was involved, said Sgt. Eric Orahood, a police spokesman. Hayden was taken to UCI Medical Center with multiple injuries, including major head trauma.

The Register briefly reported that Hayden died Tuesday due to incorrect information from the Fountain Valley Police Department.

So many friends and well-wishers came to the hospital to see the comatose El Toro High School student that some of them had to be turned away, according to friends and family members.

That, said his godmother Debbie Dugorepec, is the effect Hayden had on people.

“That kid never stopped smiling,” Dugorepec said. “The little guy would give you the shirt off of his back if you said ‘I like that shirt.’ He’s in fact done that.”

Hayden, she said, enjoyed music and skateboarding, and spending time with his friends and his twin sister Kaitlyn. He is survived by his mother Michelle, his sister, and grandparents Anita and Mike.

Amy Gorman, a 13-year-old neighbor of Hayden’s, considered him a good friend. If she could say one last thing to him, she said, she’d tell him how much she misses him and spending time with him.

Rancho Santa Margarita resident Matt Hannegan, whose son Shane was a close friend of Hayden, said Hayden was just at his home playing Ping-Pong.

“He was just here Thursday night,” Hannegan said, “My wife and I are absolutely, completely busted up. He was like a son to us.”

Hayden’s family is planning a “celebration service” rather than a funeral for the teen, though a date has not been set. Hayden’s grandmother is asking people to write down their memories of Hayden so they can collect them in a book to remember him.

“Hayden is the kind of person who would not want a funeral, he’s the kind of kid who would want a party,” Dugorepec said.

Dugorepec’s said one of her fondest memories was when Hayden served as ring-bearer at her wedding. He was about 6 years old. Dugorepec had planned to have the last dance of the reception with him, but it never quite happened.

It became a running joke between the two, but there were no laughs Wednesday morning in Hayden’s hospital room when Dugorepec said goodbye to the child she’d known since before he was born.

“I’ll meet you in heaven,” she said to her godson. “Save me that dance.”